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"I can no longer be a part of what we can all plainly see is happening to our country." Somebody should collect these incredible resignation letters and make them a book. This one is from Nate Brought, resigning as director of the NIH Executive Secretariat. www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...

Congress rolled over. The Courts rolled over. The military is now led by Trump loyalists only. All that's left is you. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Heads up!!! After February 25, you will no longer be able to download kindle books that you purchased. So make sure you take the time to download and save your library this weekend. And also, divest from Bezos and Amazon!!!

Finally, a win for legislative transparency, as the House moves to make committee votes public and implement additional reforms.

its genuinely insane that they're firing CJCS for being black and CNO for being a woman. that is what's happening here

“Shortly after Friday’s exchange, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it launched a Title IX violation investigation into Maine’s Department of Education and one of its school districts.”

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white **retired** Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

March 4th For Democracy!! 🚨 Get more info, resources, or find a protest: fiftyfifty.one (check back next week for protest listings). 50 Protests, 50 States, 1 Movement. #50501Movement #FiftyFiftyOne #March4thForDemocracy @polrev.bsky.social FAQs + talking points + other ways to act next. 🪡🧵

Cheering myself up by looking at an ancient scan of a 1982 USPS booklet I loved as a kid: "P.S. Write Soon," developed jointly by the postal service and the National Council of Teachers of English to instill a love of writing letters. It worked!

In 1987, Trump was having financial difficulties (he lost $1 Billion dollars from 1978-1990) - so he turned to Russia. The KGB literally paid for his trip to Russia, and he was recruited by the KGB. #Krasnov

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

While we’re on about choices, you have a choice to give a statement to police. Even when you’re the victim of attack, you are detained, you are held, you are arrested, giving a statement is a choice. This is a choice every legal professional will tell you: Do Not Do.

This is real

Former President Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin

@profgalloway.com actually scott, those children were killed by israeli attacks that targeted gazan schools, hospitals, mosques and burial sites. israel supported hamas to keep gazans subjugated. Israel used hamas as an excuse to vilify palestinians in general. don’t spread propaganda.

I almost started responding to someone and instead I just blocked them and drank water.

A team of astrophysicists have found flares of light in Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way.

I said what I said.

This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.

Maddow: All of this absolutely historically unprecedented. No president has ever come out of the gate with numbers like this ever before. And it is across the board

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JUST HITTING THE DOCKET: SCOTUS rules that Hampton Dellinger, of the Office of Special Counsel, may remain in his job until February 26th. The case is on pause until 2/26 b/c there is a district court hearing on that date. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Now we know where the Cybertruck design concept originated ☠️

👋🏽 Some of what @thedemocraticparty.bsky.social did just today 👋🏽

our school district is putting on a a KYR training for students and families wrt interactions with ICE 👏